The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-05
SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
Regarding the Functions Of
an Important Organ. i
ne which the Public Knows BuH,
LittIe--WOrthy Careful Con-
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To the Editor Of the Scientific American:
VII you permit Us to make kTloarn to
he pubic the facts we have learned
during the. past 8 years, concerning
disorders Of the human kidneys and
the oroans acbich diseased kidneys so
easilu break do,DB. You are conducting
scientific paper and are unprejudiced
except in favor Of Truth. 1t as useless
to sag no medical Journal Of "COds"
Standing lUOaSJd admit these facts tor
very Dubious reasons.
II. II. WARNER & CO.,
Proprietors of "Warner's Safe Cure.
That we may emphasize and clearly
explain the relation the kidneys sus-
tain to the general health, and how
much is dependent upon them, we
propose, metaphorically speaking, to
take one from the human body, place
in the wash bowl before us, and ok
anime it for the public benefit.
You will imagine that we have BE-
fore us body shaped like bean,
smooth and glistening, about four
inches in. length, two in width and
one in thickness. It ordinarily weighs
in the adult male about five ounces,
but is somewhat lighter in the female.
A small organ? you say. But under
stand, the body OF the average size
man contains about Ten quarts of
blOod, of which every drop passes
through these filters or se:cers, as they
may be called, many times q day,
as often as the Heart, making COM
plete revolution in three minutes.
From the blood they separate the
waste material, working away steadily
night and day, sleeping or waking,
tireless as the heart itself, and fully
of as much importance; removing
impurities from sixty-fiye gallons of
blood each hour, or about fortynine
barrels each day, er 9,125 hogs
heads year! What o wonder that
the kidneys can last any length OF
time under this prodigious strain,
treated and neglected as they are?
We slice this delicate organ open
lengthwise with our knife and will
roughly describe its interior:
We find it to be of a reddish
brown color, soft and easily torn,
filled with hundreds of little tubes,
short and thread-like, starting from
the arteries, ending in a little tuft
about midway from the outside open
ing of a cavity of considerable size,
which is called the pelyis. or, roughly
speaking, a sac, which is for the
purpose of holding the water to
further undergo publication before it
passes down from here into the
ureters, and so on to the outside of
the body. These little tubes are
the filters which do their work auto
matically, and right here Is Where tbs
disease of the kidney first begins.
Doing the vast amount Of work
which they are Obliged to, from the
slightest irregularity in our habits,
from cold, from high living, from
stimulants or a thousand and one
other causes which occur every day,
they become somewhat weakened in
their nerve force.
What is the result? Congestion or
stoppage of the current of blood in
the small blood vessels surrounding
them, which become blocked; these
delicate membranes are irritated;
Inflammation IS set up, then pus is
formed, which collects in the pelvis or
sac; the tubes are at first partially,
and soon are totally, unable to do
their work. The pelvic sac goes on
distending with this corruption, pres
sing upon the blood vessels. All
this time, remember, the blood,
which is entering the kidneys to be
filter ed, is passing through thas terrible,
disgusting ptts, for it cannot take any
other route!
Stop and think of it for a mo-
ment. Do you realize the importance,
nay the vital necessity, of having the
kidneys in order? Can you expect
when they are diseased or obstructed.
no matter how little, that you can
have pure blood and escape diseased
1t would be just as reasonable to ex-
pect, if pest house were set across
Broadway and countless thousands
were compelled to go through its
pestilential doors, and escape from
contsgiou and disease, as for one
to expect the blood to escape pollution
when constantly running through q
diseased kidney.
p Now what is the RESULT Why.
that the blood takes up and deposits
this poison as it sweeps along into
every organ, into every inch of muscle,
tissue, flesh and bone, from your
head. to your feet. And whenever.
from hereditary influence or otherwise,
some part If the body is weaker
than another, countless train of dis
eases is established, such as con-
sumption in weak lungs, dyspepsia,
where there is a delicate stomach:
nervousness. insanity, paralysis or
hesrt disease in those who have weak
nerves.
The heart must soon feel the effects OF !
TIE poison, as it requires pure blood to
keep 1t IN right action. It increases its |
stroke in number and force to com
pensate for the natural stimulus want |
ing, in its endeayor to crowd tie
impure blood through this obstruc-
non. causing pain, pslpitation, or an |
ont-of- breath feeling. Unnatural as
this forced labor is, the heart must |